Aquent reviews

Working at Vitamin T unfortunately comes at a cost to those that are junior in their careers, eager for corporate advancement, hardworking, those that deeply care about their career outlook, development, and sense of business acumen. In order to fully understand and feel the ways of operation, one must be there for a sufficient amount of time. Only then, one can see/witness the lack of quality employed with internal hiring, destitute training for new employees, standards of appropriate business practices, individual and team value of its current employees, management competency and retention, lackluster pay and bonus structure, biased praise for markets that have more than several month's worth of investment and connection, and who can forget the meager amount of clients constantly being poached for business. The unfortunate effects of working for this start-up is that as a Recruiter/Talent Agent, the amount of business required of you vs. your sales counterpart, teeters on a vague line of responsibility and threatens the appropriateness of quality vs. quantity, right vs. wrong, risk vs. opportunity, competency vs. incompetency, qualified vs. inexperienced, and the list goes on. For instance, witnessing the appointment of 3 insufficient market managers all lacking the skills to lead, direct, mentor, and train was an act within itself that proved FAIL, not one, not two, but three separate times, as well as the lost of several good, yet frustrated employees. I will say, Vitamin T has mastered the facade and outward appearance of being young, hip, super-creative, trendy, and full of opportunity and new, innovative ways of doing business - in addition to knowing exactly what the clients want, need, and what they can provide. Alas, the perfect remedy to success!! Wrong!!! It's unfortunate that this mindset is blinding to the executives in LA and Boston as so many have succumbed to being drained by their sincere efforts to carry their markets with minimal and faux support from regional management and only to be let down by the company on the back end, in the end - and that's what counts and matters to employees is to have support. This is lacking tremendously, and something I truly felt week-to-week until I made the decision to move on.

If you get a crummy engagement manager, you're out of luck. I mentioned some trouble I was having with mine to my supervisor at the job, and they said that they'd heard several similar complaints about the same engagement manager, and it seemed like a toxic relationship. I got laid off during the tech cull of 2023. I contacted people at Aquent about other open positions, and they weren't helpful. When I took the position, I was told that as an Aquent employee, they'd help me find work if this gig ended. Nope. That was not the case. There were several times when I applied for a job and didn't hear a single thing back. I didn't get the feeling that I was an employee at all. I felt I was getting treated like any other random person who applied for a job. I thought the pay was okay until I connected with another agency and got a *significantly* higher rate for a very similar job. They offer Cigna healthcare. Better than nothing if you can find doctors who accept it.